May 2014
Cheese Crackers
All of last week, I was craving cheese crackers. And they're terrible for a person -- have you ever looked at that list of ingredients? They tend toward terrifying -- sugars that aren't sugars -- and let's not even talk about how the box size grew smaller but the price went up. I'm not going […]
We, As One, Trailing Embers
"We, As One, Trailing Embers," is the newest story in my collection of traveling circus stories. As with all of the circus stories, they usually begin with the spark of a real world something; in this case, it was a fire that consumed Dreamland, an amusement park on Coney Island. (This is also tackled in […]
Lemon Pound Cake
I would like to say it was all Wendy's fault because she asked me about lemon cake recipes, but fault also rests with Jen, who sent me a wee lemon cake over Christmas. So, these fabulous women are to blame, and I could do nothing more than make a lemon cake. Right? Right. I asked […]
Haunted Houses
Sometimes the world is stranger than you know. Stranger than you can know. What do you do when you emerge into a place you cannot explain and must fight to understand? When there are no answers, but only more questions? When everyone you have known is dead? You keep walking. This sounds a lot like […]